Quartertown House

Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built c. 1770, with slightly lower two-bay two-storey additions to each gable end. Seven-bay two-storey later block added to front 1871, with one-bay side elevations. Pitched slate roof to early block, with chimneystacks to gable ends and hipped to later block. Addition to north has pitched roof with heavy chimneystack to gable and block to south has hipped roof. Rendered walls, later block having ornate render quoins, parapet, string course and surrounds to windows. Channelled render to ground floor. South elevation of south addition encased by rendered façade with full-height bay window. Round-headed windows to ground floor, set into square-headed recesses, and square-headed windows to first floor. Pedimented entrance doorway with Ionic-style portico having tripartite window above. Courtyard of outbuildings to west. Terraced lawn to front of house, with limestone steps. Entrance gates to south comprise ashlar limestone square-plan piers with moulded cornices and cut-stone caps, with scrolled tops to rebates to sides of piers hanging gates. Decorative double-leaf cast-iron vehicular gates with splayed random rubble walls with rusticated coping stones.

This two-period house neatly encapsulates the eighteenth and nineteenth-century development of country houses in North Cork. The ornamental detailing of the later block contrasts with the relative simplicity of the earlier. Recessed openings to the façade and the variety of opening types enhance the building whose decorative focus is the pedimented porticoed entrance. The terraced lawns, and the associated outbuildings, add significantly to the setting of the house.